{"id":2988,"date":"2012-06-01t09:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-01t13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2017-06-03t22:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03t22:13:41","slug":"copper-river-salmon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/copper-river-salmon-update\/","title":{"rendered":"copper river salmon update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hope everyone had a great memorial day weekend with family and friends and was able to enjoy a nice cookout with some delights from the seas or lakes! <strong>we <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/cedar-planked-salmon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planked <\/a>some lovely copper river sockeye, basted with our <a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/monahans-irish-whiskey-maple-glaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">irish whiskey maple glaze<\/a>, and it was the easiest, most delicious crowd pleaser that you could imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6340\" src=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/copper-river-king-salmon-515.jpg\" alt=\"copper-river-king-salmon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/copper-river-king-salmon-515.jpg 500w, \/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/copper-river-king-salmon-515-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>last week we reported that we would be seeing lots of copper river sockeyes but that kings would be scarce for the holiday weekend. well that&#8217;s exactly what happened. it seems that not many kings are being taken yet. there are two openings this week, both 36-hour, on monday and thursday. the monday opening was light on kings.<strong><em> i\u2019m writing this on wednesday the 30th and we have both gorgeous kings and sockeyes in the house and we&#8217;re hoping to have more for this weekend.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the copper river salmons are truly the kings of the grill but of course these fish will probably be the best salmon you&#8217;ve ever tasted in any other cooking method that you&#8217;d use on other salmon; poached, baked, broiled, steamed and, as in this week\u2019s recipe, pan seared are all excellent choices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/copper-river-king-salmon-with-oyster-mushrooms-and-leeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">today&#8217;s recipe <\/a>has a light fresh sauce with oyster mushrooms, leeks and fresh herbs that really lets the salmon shine. we picked up the oyster mushrooms from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tantrefarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tantr\u00e9 farm<\/a> at our farmer\u2019s market (they will have more this weekend) but you could use shitake or chanterelles as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hope everyone had a great memorial day weekend with family and friends and was able to enjoy a nice cookout with some delights from the seas or lakes! we planked some lovely copper river sockeye, basted with our irish whiskey maple glaze, and it was the easiest, most delicious crowd pleaser that you could imagine.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/copper-river-salmon-update\/\">+ read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[199,202],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}